README.md

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title: OliveGemma
emoji: 🫒
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: red
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 6.22.0
app_file: app.py
short_description: Mediterranean & European diet recognition VLM
python_version: "3.12"
startup_duration_timeout: 30m
---

# OliveGemma 🫒

OliveGemma is a 3B visual-language model for fine-grained food recognition, built on the PaliGemma-2-3B backbone with LoRA fine-tuning on 17,340 images across 216 Mediterranean & European dish categories.

Upload a food image and ask a question — the model will identify the dish, list likely ingredients, describe visual evidence, and more.

**Model:** [`JamesZar/OliveGemma-3B`](https://huggingface.co/JamesZar/OliveGemma-3B) · **Paper:** [OliveGemma: A 3 Billion VLM for Recognising the Mediterranean & European Diet](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.03428) · **Code:** [GitHub](https://github.com/tsiokris/OliveGemma)